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Dr. Mary Monica Hamer, 55, is a radiologist at the Lake City Veterans Affairs Hospital with a cause. She has taken on a “guardian angel” role to a man who is internationally reviled: Joran van der Sloot, 24, the last person to be seen with Alabama teen Natalie Holloway before she went missing in Aruba and who also pleaded guilty this week to murdering a woman in Peru, reports The Gainesville Sun. According to the Florida Department of Health's practitioner profile on Hamer, she graduated from medical school at Wayne State University in Ohio and did her residency at the William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan. She also completed two fellowships in her field, one at the...

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Dr. Mary Monica Hamer, 55, is a radiologist at the Lake City Veterans Affairs Hospital with a cause.She has taken on a “guardian angel” role to a man who is internationally reviled: Joran van der Sloot, 24, the last person to be seen with Alabama teen...

Perhaps in reaction to the heady, more innocent decade that preceded it, or as the result of a swollen population and unchecked growth, life in 1920s Fort Lauderdale became a little more wobbly, a bit more uncertain, characterized by great progress and...

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If you're in a hurry, you don't belong on Sanibel.
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Who says America doesn't make stuff anymore? From cars to coffee, hot sauce to jumbo jets, we've got ten great places to see how the proverbial sausage is made.
—Ford Rouge Factory, Dearborn, Mich.
One of the most important sites in the history of the...

When Henry Ford arrived by train in Chicago's Central Station in 1905, he was just steps from the South Michigan Avenue site that would be his first store outside Detroit. His new plan to sell automobiles from bright showrooms would change Chicago and...

Carroll Shelby, the charismatic Texan who parlayed a short-lived racing career into a specialized business building high-performance, street-legal cars, died Thursday. He was 89.
Shelby died at Baylor Hospital in Dallas, according to an announcement by...

Hardly any of us have what it takes to perform a full lifestyle makeover. But what about baby steps?
As someone who detests diet and exercise, I'm determined to keep coming up with small, doable things we all can try that will make a positive change. You...

When Don and Darla Daley dine at restaurants near their Royal Oak, Mich., home, they no longer drive their car.It's the same with quick trips to the store or nearby Royal Oak farmers market. They hop on the bicycles they bought two years ago — their...

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In the list of favorite things here in Postcards land, food and wine rank close to the top, along with the ever-popular "road trip that requires a day out of the office."
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Crystal Lake, Illinois' Peggy Lim has a healthy respect for the sun's powerful ultraviolet rays, and on a recent shopping trip she agonized over choosing a sunscreen for her three children.
"I've always heard the higher the SPF (sun protection...